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Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin » Read Now
by Mary Hunter Austin, Reuben J. Ellis. 147 pgs.

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A well-known, popular, and prolific writer, Austin published thirty-three books and three plays and was closely associated with many important literary figures of her time, including H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Jack London, and Willa Cather. Still best known today for her...
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A well-known, popular, and prolific writer, Austin published thirty-three books and three plays and was closely associated with many important literary figures of her time, including H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Jack London, and Willa Cather. Still best known today for her nature writing and southwestern cultural studies, Austin has been increasingly recognized for her work on feminist themes, including the play The Arrow Maker, the nonfiction The Young Woman Citizen, and the novels A Woman of Genius and No. 26 Jayne Street. Beyond Borders demonstrates that variety. In addition to her monographs, Austin also published her short fiction and essays in periodicals. In fact, like many a writer earning a living from her work, Austin wrote prolifically for the magazine market, producing during her career over two hundred individual pieces published in over sixty periodicals. In support of Austin's essays, Reuben J. Ellis provides an introduction that establishes a biographical and historical context for Austin's work. In addition, each individual Austin essay is prefaced by brief introductory remarks by the editor. A selected bibliography of Austin's essays is also included.
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The Land of Little Rain » Read Now
by Mary Austin. 172 pgs.

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A stunning tribute to the savage beauty of the area known as Death Valley. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and forgiving. In a collection of essays that date back almost a century, naturalist and writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) breathes life into the desert landscape...
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A stunning tribute to the savage beauty of the area known as Death Valley. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and forgiving. In a collection of essays that date back almost a century, naturalist and writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) breathes life into the desert landscape, describing its savage beauty, its plants and animals, and the occasional human visitor.
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Literary America, 1903-1934: The Mary Austin Letters » Read Now
by Mary Hunter Austin, T. Matthews Pearce. 306 pgs.

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...Literary America 1903-1934 THE MARY AUSTIN LETTERS Selected and Edited...Cataloging in Publication Data Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934. Literary America...0147-104X...
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Women and Western American Literature ("The Moral in Austin's The Land of Little Rain" begins on p. 297) » Read Now
by Susan J. Rosowski, Helen Winter Stauffer. 331 pgs.

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Mary Austin's Feminism: A Reassessment, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Janis P. Stout. 25 pgs.

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...Mary Austins feminism: a reassessment. by Janis...of horror of the destiny of women. --Mary Austin, A Woman of Genius Mary Hunter Austin...simply astonishing when one...
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Writing Together, Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature (Chap. 4 "Mary Austin, I-Mary, and Mary-by-Herself: Collaboration in Earth Horizon") » Read Now
by Linda K. Karell. 219 pgs.

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Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship ("The Example of Mary Austin's Earth Horizon" begins on p. 168) » Read Now
by Nathaniel Lewis. 297 pgs.

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New Ground: Western American Narrative and the Literary Canon (Chap. 3 "Divided Narrative: Mary Austin and Sherwood Anderson") » Read Now
by A. Carl Bredahl Jr. 195 pgs.

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Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 (Chap. 8 "Sisters of the Southwest: Mary Austin and Anna Ickes") » Read Now
by Sherry L. Smith. 278 pgs.

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Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and...
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Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about modern American culture, these writers produced a body of work that celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity. Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers, their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture, they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural survival in a world indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also encouraged notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history, and the history of the American West.
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"Inextricable Disordered Ranges": Mary Austin's Ecofeminist Explorations in Lost Borders, in Studies in Short Fiction » Read Now
by Beverly A. Hume. 16 pgs.

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...Inextricable disordered ranges": Mary Austins ecofeminist explorations in Lost...Beverly A. Hume Although Mary Austin has generally come to be perceived...its relative...
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The Undomesticated Nature of Feminism: Mary Austin and the Progressive Women Conservationists, in Studies in American Fiction » Read Now
by Stacy Alaimo. 24 pgs.

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...undomesticated nature of feminism: Mary Austin and the progressive women conservationists...it is merely unimaginative. --Mary Austin(2) At the start of the...
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Looking Westward: Geographical Distinctions in the Regional Short Fiction of Mary Foote and Mary Austin, in Studies in Short Fiction » Read Now
by Sherrie A. Inness. 13 pgs.

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...short fiction of Mary Foote and Mary Austin by Sherrie A. Inness...regional environment" (97), writes Mary Austin in her essay "Regionalism in American...fiction, including...
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Cavalcade of the American Novel: From the Birth of the Nation to the Middle of the Twentieth Century (Discussion of Mary Austin begins on p. 230) » Read Now
by Edward Wagenknecht. 578 pgs.

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...the University of New Mexico Mary Austin ; Professor Arthur Hobson Quinn...work is discussed, and the late Mary Johnston read the article upon which...CENTURY 230 1. 1...
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One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern American West (Discussion of Mary Austin begins on p. 67) » Read Now
by Joan M. Jensen. 178 pgs.

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...examine the ways in which three Anglo-American women--Mary Austin, Georgia OKeeffe, and Zoe Akins--interacted with markets...small paintings. The market could pay writers...
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An Artists' Home: Gender and the Santa Fe Culture Center Controversy, in Journal of the Southwest » Read Now
by Flannery Burke. 28 pgs.

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)" begins on p. 12) » Read Now
by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a...
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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.
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